Astrotricha asperifolia

Erect shrub 0.6–2.5 m high; stems felted or floccose. Leaves narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate or rarely linear, (25–)40–120 mm long (often much shorter near inflorescence), (1–)4–7(–10) mm wide, obtuse-apiculate or sub-acute, upper surface c. flat or rarely convex, with small granulate protuberances (sometimes very obscure) and very fine wrinkles, distributed c. uniformly over entire surface, or almost smooth, midvein channelled above, indistinct below (usually obscured by indumentum), margins recurved or occasionally almost flat; petiole (0.8–)2–6 mm long. Inflorescence (100–)210–305 mm long; axis felted or closely floccose, rarely glabrescent; bracts linear, 2–3 mm long. Pedicels 3–8 mm long (–10 mm in female phase); petals 2–3 mm long; anthers c. 1.5–2 mm long. Fruit slightly compressed, obloid-ellipsoid to suborbicular, broadest about middle, c. 2.5–3.5 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, not locellate.